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With an extensive history that dates back to the Celts and Gauls in the 5th century BC, and spans the Iron Age, Middle Ages and the Renaissance, France houses a multitude of age-old ruins, world-famous museums, priceless artwork and stately chateaux, as well as fields of poppies to commemorate its battles in the First World War.
France's north tends towards a cooler climate with four clearly defined seasons. The south enjoys balmy Mediterranean temperatures for most of the year, with summer being the most popular time to visit. August in the French Riviera sees temperatures settling at a beach-friendly 30°C.
Every corner of the country has a unique appeal. St Tropez, Monaco and Cannes glitter with high-end boutiques, chic bars and buzzing clubs – not to mention the beaches, while Strasbourg, seat of the European Parliament, is defined by its imposing Gothic and German architecture.
Avid skiers and fans of the great outdoors will enjoy the scenic roads out to the Pyrenees, Mont Blanc and the Alps and the spectacular Jura Mountains. If food is more your thing, you'll relish France's cosmopolitan capital Paris, home to 70 Michelin-starred restaurants, as well as the multitudes of independent bistros, restaurants and cafés across the country.
There are vineyards a-plenty for oenophiles seeking out France's finest vintages, farmers' markets for those with a penchant for fromage, and a rich peppering of sleepy rural villages offering a sample of true laid-back vie en rose.
Bordered by Belgium in the north, Germany and Switzerland in the east and Italy, Monaco and Spain further south, the country is also a gateway to several other desirable destinations.
Many of the country's charming towns, historic chateaux and rolling vineyards are accessible only when you have your own vehicle. Hire a car with Avis to experience the very best of France.
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Montpellier to St Tropez
Our recommended route takes you through Provence and showcases the beauty of the southern coast of France.
Start in Montpellier and head north east to Nîmes, an important outpost of the Roman Empire and full of well-preserved monuments such as the Arena, an incredible Roman amphitheatre built around 70AD, that is still used for concerts and bullfights today.
From Nîmes, head east toward Aix-en-Provence, birthplace of the painter Paul Cézanne. This route takes you past the amazing views of the Provence countryside. Jump onto the A51, and head towards the south coast of France and past the breath taking Massif des Maures. Stop off for a coffee or a meal in any one of the friendly cafes in the bustling seaside town of Toulon, before continuing your coastal journey to the beautiful port town of St Tropez.
Gateway to the French Riviera, St. Tropez was an artists' colony for many years ,before becoming known in the 1960s as a playground for the rich and famous, due to its amazing beaches and nightlife.
Bordeaux to Biarritz
This fantastic road trip runs alongside the incredible Bay of Biscay and takes you right to the Spanish border.
Starting your journey from Bordeaux, we recommend taking the route through the Parc Naturel Régional des Landes de Gascogne, a national park famed for its scenery and abundant birdlife.
You have two options when you leave the park, you can either head west towards the ocean and drive along the coast to the town of Biarritz, or you can head straight there, both have their merits. The coast road is a beautiful drive and the beaches are incredibly popular with surfers from all over the world. Why not take the opportunity to stop off and enjoy a picnic? The drive straight is also scenic but not nearly as beautiful as the coastal route. But you will arrive in Biarritz about 40 minutes earlier, giving you more time to enjoy this elegant resort and all its attractions.
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Megan had a little Boho vibe going on during our juniors (soon-to-be seniors) session in April and I loved it! She's going to be a senior at San Clemente High School.
"I'm most excited for all of the new friendships I will create and for all of the fun times of being the oldest in my school. Also, I'm looking forward to all of the senior activities and creating those memories."
I know you will create a lot of memories next year Megan! Have a fun year!


HANOI, Vietnam (AP) — Vietnam has confirmed its second human death from bird flu in nearly a month, after going nearly two years with no reported fatalities.
The director of the Health Department in southern Soc Trang province said Thursday that test results confirm that a 26-year-old woman died of the disease Jan. 28 after being hospitalized in the provincial hospital three days earlier.
Truong Hoai Phong says the woman, who recently had a baby in another hospital, had slaughtered and eaten dead chickens the family raised. He says dead and sick poultry were reported in the woman's neighborhood.
Phong says the woman's house has been disinfected and samples from poultry and people who were in contact with the woman were being tested.


America's favorite magician, Michael Carbonaro, will have plenty of surprises up his sleeve, making viewers believe the unbelievable as he performs live at Montclair, NJ's historic Wellmont Theater on May 2, 2019.
Michael is best known for his hidden-camera bits on the "Tonight Show with Jay Leno," Carbonaro frequently conducted undercover magic tricks – impressing unsuspecting audiences in convenience stores. Then, his truTV program of similar antics, "The Carbonaro Effect," was born.
A performing magician since his youth, Carbonaro studied experimental theater at NYU with the aspirations of entertaining audiences through a variety of theatrical mediums, including hidden-camera magic.
To go along with the magical fame, Carbonaro has been featured in major television series, including "Grey's Anatomy," "Happily Divorced," "Law & Order: Special Victims Unit" and "CSI Miami," and has showcased a series of hidden-camera bits on late-night TV.
He is the Academy of Magical Arts' 2015 Magician of the Year and received the Copperfield Prize (2016), bestowed on those who've elevated the art of magic.
Now is your chance to see this mysterious magician question everything you know – and right before your eyes, at Montclair's Wellmont Theater. Be front-row as Carbonaro's magic seizes the northern New Jersey theater this May.
His "Live!" show stops in Essex County on Thursday, May 2 at 7 p.m. The Wellmont Theater is located at 5 Seymour St., Montclair, NJ.


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Q: this *was* a mistake vs this *is* a mistake I have the sentence: "He immediately thinks of XYZ". Is it proper to say "This is a mistake", or "this was a mistake"? The character is trying to think of a happy image to sedate negative thoughts. The image he thinks of (XYZ) ends up triggering more negative thoughts; so choosing this image (XYZ) as a "happy" image was a mistake; his choice is a mistake.

A: 'This was a mistake'.
The thought took place in the past relative to him deciding it was a mistake.

A: 'This is a mistake'.
You are writing in the present tense already ("He immediately thinks of XYZ").
Since you use this tense the reader is expected to understand the events they are reading as happening now.  "He realising it is a mistake" is the event you are describing, and it's happening as the reader reads it.
e.g.
'He immediately thinks of XYZ.  This is a mistake.  XYZ broke his heart in the end so why would he think of her now?  "Why can't I stop thinking about her?" he thinks.  He tries to think about puppies but he just can't picture any, only her sweet cruel face.'

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Q: Outlook 365 vs Professional [save mailitem] Encoding Issues I have an outlook addin currently in development that reads mail properties from outlook and displays on a winform.
I built the outlook on an environment with outlook professional 2013. All functionalities are good. Properties like, sendername, from, to etc..gets readably displayed on a winform.
This is how i access the properties of a mail.
Outlook.MailItem mail;
mail.Sender.Name;

Now, If i take the addin on an environment with the same system locale but different outlook (Outlook 365)
I experience decoding issues when trying to read some particular mails. So for example if i am accessing a mail from sender : Adèle
Outlook.MailItem mail;
mail.Sender.Name; // ---> This returns Ad?le

The mail has a UTF-8 encoding when i checked with outlook spy. The PC locales are the same.
One weird thing is, I copied the mail from the outlook 365 environment to the other (outlook professional) and have the issue, but when i copy the mail and import from the outlook professional environment to the outlook 365, it works correctly. So i think this has to do with the way outlook 365 saves or represents it's objects ? How can i approach this issue ? Is it fixable on my end ?

A: Outlook Object Model (just like all IDispatch-friendly COM libraries) returns strings in the UTF-16 (2 bytes) encoding.
Make sure you display strings in a way that does not convert strings to a single byte encoding.
Do you see the same problem in OutlookSpy (I am its author)?


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When it comes to weight loss, there is so much misleading information about carbs. If you're trying to lose weight, do you need to cut out carbs? The short answer is NO, your body needs carbohydrates, but it's a little more complicated than that. The real culprit is refined carbs, and they could not only be holding you back from losing weight, but also causing other health problems.
To put it simply, refined carbs are basically anything processed.
Sugars: Refined/processed sugars, such as sucrose(table sugar), high fructose corn syrup, and agave syrup.
Refined grains: Grains that have had the fibrous and nutritious parts removed, such as white flour made from refined wheat.
They are stripped of almost all fiber, vitamins, and minerals. What's left is rapidly digested starch and small amounts of protein. Some manufacturers enrich their products with synthetic vitamins to make up for the loss of nutrients. Cereals, breads, and bars that say they are "high in fiber" are examples of this.
Why are refined carbs bad for you?
Refined carbs have been claimed to be linked to increased risk of many diseases, including obesity, heart disease and type 2 diabetes. My opinion of this is that it isn't just refined carbs themselves that are increasing risk of these diseases, but how MUCH of them we eat and how balanced our overall diet and lifestyle is.
Foods high in refined carbohydrates have a high Glycemic Index and are digested quickly. This causes rapid spikes in your blood sugar and insulin levels. On top of this, your blood sugar will drop 1-2 hours after eating a meal high in refined carbs, which promotes hunger and stimulates parts of the brain that are associated with reward and craving. They won't leave you feeling full for very long, so you'll probably end up eating more.
Also, high consumption of refined carbohydrates can lead to insulin resistance and high blood sugar levels, which are the main symptoms of type 2 diabetes.
Since these carbs are quickly digestible and cause spikes in your blood sugar levels, afterwards they will you drained of energy and probably craving more of them. They don't fill you up as well as more fiber-rich complex carbs so it's easy to overeat, and all of the blood sugar spikes they cause can stimulate your appetite. Weight loss and weight gain is a lot about overall calories. If the calories you're eating don't satisfy you and fuel your body correctly, you're going to need more of them. I mentioned this in my post 3 reasons you're not losing weight.
Example: Last week I was really craving Dairy Queen so I got a small cookie dough blizzard. Later I looked on their website to find that it contained 710 calories. 710!!! I could have had 6 or 7 bananas for this same calorie amount, and I think it's pretty clear that 7 bananas would fill me up more than a small ice cream treat would.
Bottom Line: Do you need to quit refined carbs cold turkey?
No, you don't need to completely cut them out of your diet. It's pretty hard to cut them out completely considering how much processed food we eat on a regular basis. But what you should do is limit your intake of these carbohydrates. Make sure you are eating lots of fiber and nutrition rich complex carbohydrates, and look at refined carbohydrates more as a treat. And really, the less you eat them, the less you will crave them. Your body does need carbohydrates, especially if you are trying to lose fat and increase or maintain lean muscle mass. Balance is key!


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Home Science The student guinea pig
The student guinea pig
By Hannah Brown -
We all understand the stress of thousands of pounds of student debt looming over us (sorry to remind you of that), but just how far would you go to pay off the money you owe?
Some students are going to extents that may be considered extreme. In order to be paid sums of up to £3,500, the numbers of UK students volunteering to be infected with tropical diseases is growing.
Diseases can include typhoid, malaria, and pneumonia, and institutions such as Oxford University and Imperial College London are working to make vaccines to combat these diseases, which kill hundreds of thousands every year. Currently, a large focus is on pneumonia, which is the leading killer of children under the age of five, killing 1.4 million last year. A preventable disease, scientists are therefore eager to reduce this staggeringly high number.
Human guinea pigs have become a popular way for scientists to test new vaccines. The UK is also a world leader in studying infectious diseases, and as the risk of a global pandemic continues to grow, it is vital to introduce new vaccines.
'The trials pay quite well and Oxford is very expensive. I used the money for my rent,' said Matthew Speight, 27-year-old Zoology student at Oxford University. He has been infected twice with typhoid.
'You swallow a cup of bacteria… Three or four days later I had this crazy fever. It was the height of summer during the 2016 heatwave. My body and joints ached, I had a strong headache, I was profusely sweating, I remember the bed being soaked, I had to do a lot of laundry that week. I wouldn't wish that on my worst enemy.' He described the experience as 'the worst of my life.'
But with prices ranging from £200 all the way to £3,500 for the worst diseases, more and more students are turning to medical trials despite the fact they may be bedridden. As not every volunteer will contract the disease they ingest, some feel like it may be a risk they are willing to take.
The vaccine that was developed as a result of the trial Speight was involved in has now been given to 89,000 children in Nepal, Bangladesh, and Malawi, and results are expected later this year.
But are the studies safe? There are plenty of horror stories on the internet, such as a 2006 case where six male volunteers infected with a strain of leukaemia were left in critically ill states in hospital. However, scientists insist that nowadays the chances of become seriously ill are low.
Doctors are on hand for 24 hours a day, and the volunteers have extensive medical checks. They also receive a full course of antibiotics at the end of the trial, whether they became sick or not, to eradicate all of the remaining bacteria.
'I want to contribute to tackling diseases in any way I can. It's rewarding, even if it can be a terrible experience,' said Speight.
Would you become a human guinea pig to help pay your rent? What are your views on human trials? Tweet us @Concrete_UEA, comment on our Facebook page, or send an email to concrete.scienv@uea.ac.uk. We'll publish some of your responses in the next issue.
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Union Bank's century of trust
Inaugurating the Centenary Year celebrations of the bank, Arun Jaitley recalled the glorious history of the bank
Mahatma's blessing
From the Archives: Established on 11 November 1919 in Bombay, the bank has the unique distinction of being blessed by Mahatma Gandhi, who inaugurated the bank's corporate office in Mumbai
By Business India Editorial
Last fortnight, Union Bank of India celebrated its 100th Foundation Day and thus joins the select club of Centenary Year organisations in the country. Established on 11 November 1919 in Bombay, the bank has the unique distinction of being blessed by Mahatma Gandhi, who inaugurated the bank's corporate office in Mumbai. "We should have the ability to carry on a big bank, to manage efficiently crores of rupees in the course of our national activities. Though we have not many banks amongst us, it does not follow that we are not capable of efficiently managing crores and tens of crores of rupees," said Gandhi at the inauguration of the bank.
Inaugurating the Centenary Year celebrations of the bank, Arun Jaitley, Union minister of finance, recalled the glorious history of the bank and commended its role in nation-building. While tracing the evolution of banking in India, current challenges and opportunities, the finance minister argued for stronger and efficient banks, to meet the needs and aspirations of young India. He emphasised the reforms undertaken by the government, such as the insolvency and bankruptcy code, goods & services tax, monetary policy committee constitution, and ease of doing business.
He said that various schemes, like Make in India, Digital India, Jan Dhan, Jan Suraksha, Mudra, Stand-up India, Skill India, etc, are all geared towards realising the aspirations of New India. He also exhorted banks to continue credit flows to varied sectors of economy, especially micro, small and medium enterprises, which depend on timely financial support for their growth and liquidity support for NBFCs as they also play an important role in nurturing the enterprise.
Devendra Fadnavis, Chief Minister, Maharashtra, and Shiv Pratap Shukla, Union minister of state for finance, attended the centenary celebrations as guests of honour. Shukla commended the bank for its active role in furthering financial inclusion, emphasising that trust in financial institutions is key for the progress of the nation and, therefore, both banks and borrowers should respect the trust of depositors.
Fadnavis expressed happiness over a Mumbai-born bank completing a hundred years in the service of the Nation
Fadnavis expressed happiness over a Mumbai-born bank completing a hundred years in the service of the Nation. He said that Maharashtra has emerged as a leader in entrepreneurship, with his government enabling an ecosystem for business and enterprises. He emphasised the fintech phenomenon as being a game changer for financial intermediation in economy.
Welcoming the dignitaries, Rajkiran Rai G., MD & CEO, Union Bank of India, expressed his gratitude to all stakeholders, especially the 70 million customers, who stood with the bank through thick and thin in its century-long journey. He emphasised that the Union Bank is ready for the future, with investment in people, product and technology.
India Post released a stamp to commemorate the Centenary Year of Union Bank of India. A coffee table book, A Century of Trust was released by Fadnavis too. Also, on the occasion, Union Bank of India launched two new variants of Cards – a combo card (debit & credit) and Rupay contactless card (debit & prepaid); a new single app for mobile banking facility (U Mobile); a new web & tab enabled module for credit growth in the MSME sector – Union Mudra and environment friendly, energy efficient & limited carbon footprint Green Data Centre.
Such a long journey
At the time of India's independence in 1947, Union Bank of India had four branches – three in Mumbai and one in Saurashtra. When the government of India nationalised it in 1969, it had 240 branches. Shortly after nationalisation, Union Bank of India acquired Belgaum Bank, a private sector bank established in 1930 that had itself merged with the Shri Jadeya Shankarling Bank (Bijapur; incorporated on 10 May 1948) in 1964. Then, in 1985, Union Bank of India acquired Miraj State Bank, which was established in 1929, and had 26 branches. In 1999, the Reserve Bank of India requested that the Union Bank acquire Sikkim Bank in a rescue after extensive irregularities had been discovered at the non-scheduled bank.
Union Bank expanded internationally in 2007, with the opening of offices in Abu Dhabi, United Arab Emirates, and Shanghai in the People's Republic of China. The next year, Union Bank established a branch in Hong Kong, its first branch outside India. In 2009, it opened a representative office in Sydney, Australia.
The bank now operates through over 4,200 branches across the country. It has a team of over 36,000 members of staff to serve 70 million customers. Currently, it has total assets of Rs4,91,146 crore
(This article is reproduced from Business India Magazine. It first appeared in our issue dated November 19-December 2, 2018)
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2. The script hang each time while converting PDF to TIFF: Acrobat Reader open the next PDF-file, print it to TIFF and don't close automatically - process stopping.
Next I manually close Acrobat Reader and script continue it work to next open PDF-file. Next I have the same problem.
Could you provide me a solution for these issues?


Thousands of families welcome their new WEP sons or daughters each year. Why should YOU consider hosting?
Discover a new world and culture through the personality of an international student.
Gain a deeper understanding of a lifestyle and way of thinking different from yours.
Enrich your family's life by 'traveling' the world from the comfort of your own home.
Share your country, culture and traditions.
See your student master his/her English, while working on your own foreign language skills.
Promote mutual understanding and respect by sharing your daily life with a young person from overseas.
Re-discover the beauty of your own country.
Make a difference for your family, your student, your neighborhood and your country!
and we are ready to get started!
WEP-USA Host Family Application form!
Host families come in all sizes and shapes, with or without children – even single persons can apply. The families are expected to provide meals taken at home, a private room (a room can be shared with a host sibling on short-term programs), and a quiet place to study. The host families are also expected to help their student to adjust to the American life and school. Single parents, retirees and empty nesters are welcome to apply. English has to be the first language spoken in the home.
WEP students are boys and girls who are between 15 and 18 years old. They are at least intermediate-level English speakers, have strong academics, and are very excited to come to the U.S.
WEP European offices screen every applicant for leadership potential and maturity to make sure the student can thrive in a foreign environment. The students are selected as part of a three-step process, which includes an extensive written application, in-person interview, and group evaluations.
WEP-USA wants every student to make the right program choice. For this reason, a group of psychologists are invited to the evaluation meetings to assist with the student selection process. Using a protocol developed exclusively for WEP and refined in recent years, WEP-USA aims to better evaluate the different attitudes and motivations of its candidates. A combination of a test/interview and individual psychological assessment adds a broader insight into the student's personality, in addition to the evaluation of his/her educational achievements and language competency.
What is the host family vetting process?
The prospective Host Family fills out and submits an online WEP-USA Host Family application form (see the link below).
The Family submits criminal background checks for all members over 18 years old living in the home, including those turning 18 during the student's year.
A WEP-USA Support Counselor visits the family in their home for an in-person interview. The program expectations, policies and program rules are discussed at this stage, along with any concerns the host family or the counselor might express.
The Family submits two personal (non-relative) references to vouch for their good character to provide a student with a great American experience.
The Support Counselor conducts a home evaluation and submits 6 photos of the home to the national office for approval (front & back of the house, student's room & bathroom, living room, and kitchen).
The Support Counselor contacts the high school of choice for long-term programs (private or public) to confirm the student's enrollment.
The Family confirms their commitment by signing a Host Family agreement, which makes the last page of the Host Family application.
When all the above steps are confirmed, completed and approved, the family is accepted into the WEP-USA program and may start communicating with their new son or daughter!


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Bills vs. Bengals Prediction: Week 17 Odds, Picks & Moneyline – January 2, 2023
The good times will halt for one team when the Buffalo Bills (12-3) and Cincinnati Bengals (11-4) play on January 2, 2023, as both clubs are riding winning streaks. The Bills have secured six games in a row, while the Bengals have piled up seven straight wins.
Bills vs. Bengals Odds
The spread for this matchup is set at 1.5 points, with sportsbooks listing the Bills as the favorites.
As for the moneyline, the Bills have -120 odds to pick up the win, while the Bengals are listed at +100 to claim victory.
Finally, the total for the game is set at 50 points.
How to Watch Bills vs. Bengals Live?
Game Day: Monday, January 2, 2023
TV Channel: ESPN
Stadium: Paycor Stadium
The Bills rank seventh in total defense this season (317.7 yards allowed per game), but they've been playing really well on the offensive side of the ball, ranking second-best in the NFL with 402.3 total yards per game. The Bills have been thriving on both sides of the ball, ranking fourth-best in scoring offense (28.0 points per game) and second-best in scoring defense (17.5 points allowed per game).
The Bills are compiling 259.5 passing yards per game on offense, which ranks them seventh in the NFL. On the other side of the ball, they rank 15th, surrendering 213.3 passing yards per contest. Defensively, the Bills have been a top-five unit in terms of rushing yards, ranking fourth-best by allowing just 104.4 per game. They rank seventh on offense (142.8 rushing yards per game).
On the offensive side of the ball, the Bills have been a top-five unit in terms of third-down efficiency, ranking best in the NFL by averaging a 49.7% third-down percentage. They rank 11th on defense (37.9% third-down conversion rate allowed). The Bills rank eighth in yards per play allowed this year (5.1), but they've been thriving on offense, ranking third-best in the NFL with 6.2 yards per play. The Bills rank 13th in the league with an even turnover margin after forcing 24 turnovers (fourth in the NFL) and committing 24 (30th in the NFL).
With 367.4 total yards per game on the offensive side of the ball, the Bengals rank seventh in the NFL in 2022. On defense, they rank 14th, allowing 332.3 total yards per contest. The Bengals' defense ranks ninth in the NFL with 20.4 points given up per game, but they've been bolstered by their offense, which ranks fifth-best by compiling 26.1 points per contest.
The Bengals' passing attack has been leading the charge for the team, as they rank fifth-best in the NFL with 269.2 passing yards per contest. In terms of defense, they are allowing 225.9 passing yards per game, which ranks 21st. From an offensive angle, the Bengals are accumulating 98.2 rushing yards per game (26th-ranked). They rank seventh in the NFL defensively (106.4 rushing yards surrendered per game).
The Bengals' third-down offense has been consistently moving the chains, putting up a 47.1% third-down conversion rate (fifth-best) this season. Defensively, they rank 19th by surrendering a 39.8% third-down rate. The Bengals rank 11th in the NFL with 5.6 yards per play on offense, and they rank 14th with 5.4 yards surrendered per play on defense. The Bengals have a +3 turnover margin this season, which ranks ninth in the NFL.
Bills vs. Bengals Injury Report
Christian Benford CB Oblique Questionable
La'el Collins OT Knee Out
Sam Hubbard DE Calf Questionable
Bills vs. Bengals Betting Analysis
Bills Betting Insights
The Bills are 7-8-0 against the spread this season. In games they were favored in by 1.5 points or more so far this season, the Bills went 7-8 against the spread.
Bills games have finished with a final combined score above the over/under five times this season. The Bills won nine of the 14 games they were favored on the moneyline last season (64.3%).
In games they played as a moneyline favorite with odds of -120 or shorter, the Bills had a 9-5 record (winning 64.3% of their games).
Bengals Betting Insights
The Bengals have compiled a 12-3-0 record against the spread this year. In games they have played as 1.5-point underdogs or more, the Bengals have a perfect ATS record of 2-0.
This season, five Bengals games have gone over the point total. The Bengals have been underdogs in three games this season and won two (66.7%) of those contests.
The Bengals have a record of 1-1 in games where sportsbooks have them as underdogs of at least +100 on the moneyline.
Bills vs. Bengals Against The Spread & Betting Records
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Josh Allen has 4,029 passing yards (sixth in the NFL), 32 touchdowns (third in the NFL) and 13 interceptions this year. He has completed 63.4% of his passes, averaging 268.6 yards per game and 7.5 per attempt.
In addition to his passing statistics, Allen has 746 rushing yards (second on the Bills), with seven rushing touchdowns.
Stefon Diggs has 101 receptions (fourth in the NFL) for 1,325 yards (third in the NFL) and 10 TDs. Through 15 games, he is averaging 6.7 catches and 88.3 yards per game.
Devin Singletary's output on the ground this season includes 790 yards and five TDs. He is averaging 52.7 yards per game and 4.6 per attempt (19th in the NFL).
Singletary has 37 catches, 277 yards and one TD in the passing game.
Gabriel Davis has racked up 797 receiving yards and seven touchdowns with 45 catches on 82 targets. He's averaging 3.2 receptions and 56.9 yards per game.
On the defensive side, Matt Milano has 1.5 sacks to go with 12.0 TFL, 90 tackles, and two interceptions in 2022.
Damar Hamlin has 90 tackles, 6.0 TFL, and 1.5 sacks this season.
Tremaine Edmunds has collected 97 tackles, 5.0 TFL, and 1.0 sack this year. He leads the Bills in tackles.
Taron Johnson has one interception with 82 tackles, 4.0 TFL, and eight passes defended.
Joe Burrow is averaging 7.6 passing yards per attempt (seventh in the NFL) and 284.0 yards per game this year, completing 69.0% of his passes on the way to 4,260 total yards (second in the NFL), 34 touchdowns (second in the NFL) and 12 interceptions through 15 games.
On the ground, Burrow has added five rushing touchdowns and 247 rushing yards (third on the Bengals).
Joe Mixon averages 60.5 rushing yards per game through 13 games (787 total yards), while scoring six rushing touchdowns.
Mixon has added 55 receptions (4.2 per game) for 400 yards (30.8 per game) with two receiving touchdowns. He's been targeted 69 times in the passing attack.
In 15 games played this season, Tee Higgins has 73 catches (4.9 receptions per game on 6.9 targets per game) for 1,022 yards and seven receiving touchdowns.
Ja'Marr Chase has been targeted 121 times, resulting in 79 catches for 960 yards (fifth in the NFL).
In 2022, Logan Wilson has 113 tackles, 3.0 TFL, 2.5 sacks, and one interception over 14 games.
Germaine Pratt has totaled 1.0 sack in addition to his 5.0 TFL, 96 tackles, and two interceptions over 14 games.
Over the 2022 season, Vonn Bell has 74 tackles, 4.0 TFL, 1.0 sack, and four interceptions in 15 games.
Trey Hendrickson's season stats include 30 tackles, 5.0 TFL, and 6.0 sacks through 14 games.
Bills vs. Bengals Predictions and Pick
Our prediction to win this game is the Bills, and we expect that Bengals will cover the spread (Bills -1.5). Finally, we see the scoring in this one going under the posted total of 50 points.
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Festival brings together conceptual artists
Entertainment // Arts & Theater
Molly Glentzer Dec. 14, 2016
1of16"Bjork Digital," a five-room installation of digital and video works by the Icelandic artist Bjork, is among the highlights of the 2016 Day for Night Festival.Photo: Courtesy of the artist
2of16The Berlin artist Robert Seidel is presenting his large-scale, organic projection "HYBRIS" during the 2016 Day for Night Festival.Photo: Courtesy of the artist
3of16Amsterdam-based visual artists Children of the Light are creating "Reflector Suits," which are site-specific, living sculptures that appear to float in space.Photo: Courtesy of the artists
4of16Shoplifter's "Ghostbeast" is a "living, breathing" interactive sculpture that will feed on sounds, growing inside a large cage during the 2016 Day for Night Festival.Photo: Courtesy of the artist
5of16The Paris duo Nonotak returns to the 2016 Day for Night Festival with "SHIRO," an installation and stage for live performance.Photo: Courtesy of the artists
6of16The New York studio AV& (Stephen Baker and David Bianciardi, principals) and their collaborator Vincent Houze will present "Phases," a calming, slow-moving light installation and sculptural environment at the 2016 Day for Night Festival.Photo: Courtesy of the artists
7of16The London art practice United Visual Artists will present "Musica Universalis," a "spatial instrument that investigates resonances from far away objects in our solar system" during the 2016 Day for Night Festival.Photo: Courtesy of the artists
8of16Alex Czetwertynski, a co-founder of the Day for Night Festival, will present his "Blurware" during the 2016 event.Photo: Courtesy of the artist
9of16TUNDRA, a St. Petersburg collective, will bring "OUTLINES" to the 2016 Day for Night Festival. The large-scale, multi-media laser-beam installation explores the interaction between audio and visuals with human emotion.Photo: Courtesy of the artists
10of16Ezra Miller is creating "Warp Transmission," a live video feed for the main stage of the 2016 Day for Night Festival that creates a meditative, visual mash-up created by real-time "generative animation."Photo: Courtesy of the artist
11of16Ezra Miller is creating "Warp Transmission," a live video feed for the main stage of the Day for Night Festival. The visual mash-up will be generated by real-time "generative animation."Photo: Courtesy of the artist
12of16LONDON, ENGLAND - AUGUST 31: Bjork appeared via live stream as a motion capture avatar from Iceland during Bjork Digital press conference monitorated by the Director of Somerset House Trust Jonathan Reekie at Somerset House on August 31, 2016 in London, England. (Photo by Santiago Felipe/Getty Images)Photo: Santiago Felipe, Contributor
13of16Edward Degas, "Little Dancer Aged Fourteen"
14of16Band of Horses BW Tyler Ramsey - guitar and vocals, Bill Reynolds - bass, Ben Bridwell -guitar, keyboards, vocals, Creighton Barrett - drums, Ryan Monroe - guitar, keyboards, vocals
15of16John Waters performs his one-man show, "A John Waters Christmas," at the Ridgefield Playhouse on Monday, Dec. 19.Photo: Greg Gorman / Contributed photo
16of16"Wedding at Cana," a work on paper from 2015, is in the show "Kermit Oliver" at Hooks-Epstein Galleries.Photo: Hooks-Epstein Galleries
The music Björk has made in recent years isn't what many people would classify as melodic - nothing you're likely to dance to or sing along with. Her practice is more like conceptual art, crafting music that fits with or corresponds to her digital and physical artist visions.
This could make her an excellent fit for the Day for Night Festival, which prides itself on its mix of music and immersive art displays.
Organizer Dutch Small says visitors can get a sense of her latest work with "Björk Digital," an immersive installation of digital and video works that are experienced through virtual reality goggles.
Small said the Houston version will be bigger than previous iterations in London and Tokyo.
In September, a reviewer for the Guardian found "Björk Digital" simultaneously clunky and awe-inspiring, somewhere between a galactic-scale vision and a primitive video game, but applauded the artist for aspiring to create something that's never been experienced before.
You won't need goggles to experience the rest of the art, although sunglasses might be in order for some of it. The festival has commissioned more than a dozen site-specific new media installations.
The Paris group Nonotak - which last year altered perceptions with strobe lights, a warehouse full of scaffolding and loud sound - returns with the smaller but still eye-bending "Shiro," which will function both as an installation and as a stage.
London's United Visual Artists collective is unveiling "Musica Universalis," described as "a spatial instrument that investigates resonances from far away objects in our solar system." No word yet on whether you can expect alien contact there - although you might think you're seeing creatures from another universe when you encounter the living sculptures of "Reflector Suits," an improvisational performance by Amsterdam's Children of the Light.
If you need to calm down after that, head for "Phases," a slow-moving light installation and sculptural environment by the New York studio AV&C collaborates with Vincent Houzé.
Once again, the backdrop for the main stage will be part of the art: up-and-comer Ezra Miller is doing "Warp Transmission," a live video feed and mash-up of visuals created by real-time generative animation.
The art line-up also features mind-teasing digital works by Golan Levin, Michael Fullman, Robert Seidel, Shoplifter, Tundra, Damien Echols and festival co-founder Alex Czetwertynski.
And then there's the Various Projects installation, a two-story "architectural intervention" that doubles as an interactive lounge and recharging center. That's sounding pretty much like an object - something you could actually touch, and it would really be there.
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Molly Glentzer, a staff arts critic since 1998, writes mostly about dance and visual arts but can go anywhere a good story leads. Through covering public art in parks, she developed a beat focused on Houston's emergence as one of the nation's leading "green renaissance" cities.
During about 30 years as a journalist Molly has also written for periodicals, including Texas Monthly, Saveur, Food & Wine, Dance Magazine and Dance International. She collaborated with her husband, photographer Don Glentzer, to create "Pink Ladies & Crimson Gents: Portraits and Legends of 50 Roses" (2008, Clarkson Potter), a book about the human culture behind rose horticulture. This explains the occasional gardening story byline and her broken fingernails.
A Texas native, Molly grew up in Houston and has lived not too far away in the bucolic town of Brenham since 2012.
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An Intimate Portrait of Friendship in "The Ensemble", by Aja Gabel - Book Review
August 12, 2018 Vickie
The Ensemble is the perfect debut novel - unique and authentic. Author Aja Gabel brings her musical background to the forefront with the Van Ness Quartet - four musicians who meet, form friendships, struggle, and evolve together. Gabel was herself a musician, playing cello from childhood, so she brings experience with her in writing of these musicians, the music itself, and their emotional struggles.
The Ensemble: A Novel
By Aja Gabel
We meet the quartet in conservatory, and each have a role in conveying their story throughout the novel. Jana is first violin and the clear leader of the group; Brit, a pretty self-conscious orphan, is second violin; Daniel, who has the least natural talent, is the hardest working of the group on cello; and Henry on viola is the handsome, happy prodigy. Gabel provides vivid emotional narratives of her characters as they grow up together - through family and personal drama; reliance upon each other; distrust and envy; but always deeply intimate and intertwined.
As the book progresses, her characters mature in different ways, and so does her writing it seems. Her characters' revelations about themselves and those to whom they are so closely attached become more accurate realizations instead of idealizations, and each member provides an acceptance of other's successes and flaws alike. They are a cohesive unit that will succeed or fail together, and their futures hinge on the collective mood.
Gabel's The Ensemble provides us with a different kind of story, and she skillfully succeeds with her first novel. I'm looking forward to seeing more from her.
In Relationships, Friendship, Music Tags 2018, Gabel, Riverhead, Fiction
For Open Minds and Music Fans: "Long Way Gone", by Charles Martin - Book Review
December 18, 2016 Vickie
This is a book I picked up at Book Expo, as an advance reader's copy. Many of the authors whose books I receive at Expo are completely unknown to me - which makes for exciting discoveries along with some disappointments. Long Way Gone fits somewhere in between.
I picked up the book from my very large "to be read" stack because of the subject matter - a teenager rejects all he knows and takes off for Nashville to begin a music career. Hardship ensues, and he takes a long, crooked path back home, which sounds a bit hackneyed, but it's not quite a fairy tale. There were two things I did not expect about Long Way Gone - first, the depth of description and knowledge of the music industry; and second, that it's Christian-themed. Not familiar with Charles Martin's writing, I'd no idea what to expect, and the religious tone is not at all aggressive. What I got was a soulful and thoughtful look at and man's intrepid life.
Long Way Gone
By Charles Martin
Martin begins the novel in present day, with a middle-aged man, Cooper, seasoned with his life's extreme heartache's. As we progress, we go back in time to visit Cooper's childhood in Leadville, Colorado; adolescence performing with his father; and the characters who confront him with opportunity - both good and bad - along the way. Cooper has a natural gift of music that affects people in transcendent ways. He's influenced by his father, a traveling tent preacher. We experience his break with his father, journey to Nashville, discovery of the love of his life, his steep fall, and his guardian angel. Throughout the pain, we see a good man that's made a few wrong turns - detours that make it all the more real, though the story is certainly a unique one.
All of us could probably use a little faith, and I don't mind a message of a broken spirit, hope, and redemption wrapped in a well-chronicled story. And I certainly enjoyed Martin's profound grasp of music and its capacity for strong emotional reactions. Something with which I definitely connected.
Martin is a good storyteller, easy to read, and I appreciate the fact that not everything is neatly tied up in a bow. An accomplished writer with a solid fan base, a previous Martin book is being turned into a film - The Mountain Between Us - with Kate Winslet next year. While I probably won't read the book, count me in to see the screen version.
In Religion, Music, Fiction Tags Fiction, Inspiration, Religious, 2016, Thomas Nelson
Punk's Not Dead in "Die Young With Me", by Rob Rufus - Book Review
August 20, 2016 Elizabeth
To be honest, I didn't want to like this book. A book about a punk kid (no, really, he was in a punk band), I feared it would be another sad cancer story that would make me feel bad. It did that, yes, but it cracked into my heart in deep and unexpected ways.
Rufus grew up in Huntington, WV, and was living a single dimensional life until one day he found punk rock music. Then, the technicolored lights turned on. He and his identical twin, Nat, fell in love with the genre and after consuming any and every album they could physically get their hands on, they started their own punk band, Defiance of Authority.
Die Young with Me: A Memoir
By Rob Rufus
The band was gaining traction, Rob was dating a hot cheerleader, and things were on the upswing for the Rufus twins except for the nagging cough Rob couldn't shake. Rufus' experiences with the local ER shed light both on the inadequacies of medical care in smaller locales in the country as well as the prejudices that go beyond the color of one's skin.
Once properly diagnosed, Rufus began treatment in Columbus Children's hospital hours away from home. Rufus tells his cancer story in such a gruesome and heartbreaking manner, the book is simultaneously hard to read and tough to put down.
What sets his story apart, I think, is his age. Rufus was seventeen at the time of diagnosis, so still legally a minor. He was far from a child, though, and his stories of the pediatric cancer ward in Columbus are told from the perspective of a man-boy suffering from teenage angst, but with one foot in the adult world. The one person he truly found common ground with was the janitor who cleaned his room.
And as Rob underwent the horrific chemo treatments necessary to save his life, his brother and the band headed out on the Warped Tour. As Rufus lost his hair, weight, organs and puked at least a million times, his brother – his identical twin - got buff, honed his music skills, toured with their idols and had girl groupies. Rufus took it in stride. It is hard for me to imagine being that magnanimous NOW if I were in a similar situation much less at the self-centered, self-righteous age of seventeen.
In the end, Rufus got through his trials through his own grit, the staunch love and support of his parents, a close, small network of friends, a caring team of doctors that actually appreciated his 'punkness' and that unbreakable, unknowable bond that twins always seem to share. One night when Nat was on the road and Rob was stuck in the hospital, Nat urged Rob to look out at the moon. It is the same moon in both places, Nat said. In other words, I'm with you. Always with you.
This isn't a literary work of genius, but it doesn't need to be. It's the story of a punk rocker who fought his way through the mosh pit of cancer hell and got back up on the stage.
Publisher: Touchstone/Simon & Schuster
Elizabeth's rating: 3.5 stars
In Autobiography, Memoir, Music, Non-Fiction Tags 2016, Rufus, Touchstone, Simon & Schuster, Memoir, Cancer
Running Down a Dream with "Petty", by Warren Zanes - Book Review
January 19, 2016 Vickie
I grew up with Tom Petty - from the moment I discovered I loved rock-and-roll, he was there, feeding my need for music with lyrics I could relate to, and a band that delivered the tunes that had me swaying along with them. He's from Gainesville, Florida, where I went to school; I've seen him live in concert; have listened to him almost my entire life. Yet, I picked up Warren Zanes' biography, Petty, and learned I didn't know much about him at all.
Zanes spent countless hours talking with Petty, interviewing past and present members of the Heartbreakers and Petty's earlier band, Mudcrutch, and pouring over thousands of recordings to write this homage. Somewhat reclusive, Petty works to stay out of the public eye when not on stage. But Zanes is able to dig into Petty's knotty emotional history - from his abusive relationship with his father, to his 22-year first marriage, drug use, and the heavy responsibilities of being a father and band leader.
We follow Tom Petty along his life and musical journey, which are really a single, intertwined quest for perfection. This quest often let him down (family, addiction, and depression), and sometimes lifted him up (musical success and respect); and along the way, we have a front row view into the arguments, disappointments, achievements, tours, and collaborations that make up his long career.
Petty: The Biography
By Warren Zanes
Zanes includes Petty's father's rocky upbringing, leading to their tumultuous relationship; of the music scene in Gainesville in a time of R&B, blues, and pop; and of hanging out as a teenager at the local guitar store, picking up band mates and gigs. We follow Petty to Los Angeles, and learn about record deals, his rocky marriage, band conflicts, and of being a master storyteller. We hear of Petty's highs and lows, by his own account, friends (including Stevie Nicks), and the Heartbreakers themselves. Zanes brings to us the good and the bad - disgruntled former band members, Petty's battle with depression and addiction, and finding solace in the music. We all know of Petty's great collaborations - Bob Dylan, George Harrison, Jeff Lynne, Jimmy Iovine, Rick Rubin, etc. - but along with that we learn how that music was made and where he and the Heartbreakers were in their evolution and mindset.
Petty, now in his mid-sixties, is considered an elder statesman of rock-and-roll. He is still making records and touring - both with the Heartbreakers and Mudcrutch. I admire Petty's dedication to his craft, his innate talent, and his musical instinct. This is an engaging biography that has given me a deeper connection to Petty's work and for that alone, it was worth the read.
Publisher: Henry Holt and Co.
In Non-Fiction, Biography, Music Tags 2015, Henry Holt and Co., Biography, Non-Fiction, Tom Petty, Music, Zanes


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Q: Axios post-request doesn't send complete object I need to send an object including a base64-encoded image to an API-endpoint in TS. I use this code to convert a file to Base64 and attach it to an object:
const file = values.beleg1;
                const reader = new FileReader();
                reader.readAsDataURL(file);
                reader.onload = async function () {
                    const result = reader.result.toString().split(',')[1];
                    await valuesObj.push({ name: 'base64Image', value: result });

                };
                reader.onerror = function (error) {
                    console.log('Error: ', error);
                };

If I then log the object 'valuesObj' it does show that the base64-object is attached to the main-object.

However when I then I then use this object in the request like in the code below it is not shown in the payload when looking at the network-request
axios({
                url: 'http://localhost:8080/createPDF',
                method: 'POST',
                headers: {
                    'Content-Type': 'multipart/form-data',
                },
                responseType: 'blob',
                data: valuesObj,
            })
                .then((response: AxiosResponse) => {
                    setLoadingText('');
                    const blob: Blob = new Blob([response.data], { type: 'application/pdf' });
                    const objectUrl: string = window.URL.createObjectURL(blob);
                    window.open(objectUrl);
                })
                .catch((error) => {
                    console.log(error);
                });

What is the reason for this? Does it have anything to do with the length/size of the string? Or is there another reason?

A: What is happening is the reader hasn't finished reading before the Axios call proceeds. The reader executes asynchronously. Thus, the order of operations often ends up something like this:

*

*Start the read operation.

*Attach event handler onloaded.

*Start the Axios request, which is probably sent immediately at this point.

*Complete the read operation.

*Complete the Axios request.

Because you aren't waiting for the load event to finish before sending the Axios request, the request does not include the new data. You need to make sure the load event is finished and the data is pushed onto your array before you proceed with the Axios call.
try {
    const file = values.beleg1;
    const reader = new FileReader();
    reader.readAsDataURL(file);

    // construct a promise that will resolve once loading is complete,
    //   and then wait for it, so that we don't make the axios call until
    //   after the loading is done.
    await new Promise<void>((resolve, reject) => {
        reader.onload = function () {
            const result = reader.result.toString().split(',')[1];
            valuesObj.push({ name: 'base64Image', value: result });
            // notify that the promise has completed its work
            resolve();
        };

        reader.onerror = function () {
            // notify that the promise failed and pass along the error object
            reject(reader.error);
        };
    });

    // I picked any since I don't want to define out the full type, but you probably should
    const response: any = await axios({
        url: 'http://localhost:8080/createPDF',
        method: 'POST',
        headers: {
            'Content-Type': 'multipart/form-data',
        },
        responseType: 'blob',
        data: valuesObj,
    });

    setLoadingText('');
    const blob: Blob = new Blob([response.data], { type: 'application/pdf' });
    const objectUrl: string = window.URL.createObjectURL(blob);
    window.open(objectUrl);
} catch (error) {
    // all errors during the processing are caught in one place
    console.log('Error: ', error);
}

Note that I put everything in async/await style, except the required Promise object, and I have a single try-catch block. If you want to process errors at a higher level of granularity, split it into multiple try-catch blocks.
When we make sure to await every asynchronous action, we ensure that we don't start the next one until we are done with the previous, so everything is done in order.

A: Your Problem seems to be that your async axios request gets the value of your valuesObj, before onload actually adds your new record.
Sorry forgot a solution ^^
Either you put your axios request directly into the pipe...
reader.onload =
        (async function () {
            const result = reader.result.toString().split(',')[1]
            await valuesObj.push({ name: 'base64Image', value: result})
            return valuesObj
        })
        .then(
            data =>
            axios({
                url: 'http://localhost:8080/createPDF',
                method: 'POST',
                headers: {
                    'Content-Type': 'multipart/form-data',
                },
                responseType: 'blob',
                data,
            })
            .then((response: AxiosResponse) => {
                setLoadingText('')
                const blob: Blob = new Blob([response.data], { type: 'application/pdf' })
                const objectUrl: string = window.URL.createObjectURL(blob)
                window.open(objectUrl)
            })
            .catch(console.log))
        )

})

or you create another async function which you can call from your onload or from another async fn, which awaits both async events.


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5 Days Mount Kenya Budget Adventure Trekking Tour up Sirimon down Chogoria.
Day 1: Nairobi-Naro Moro Trekking Mount Kenya.
Departure from Nairobi is at 09:30hrs for transfer to Naro Moro Mountain Rock hotel for lunch. An acclimatization walk will follow to the Famous Mau Mau Caves and Burguret Water Falls. After photography proceed to Hikers Camp (2,3309m), for dinner and overnight. 11Km, 4 to 5 hours hike.
Day 2: Naro Moro-Met Station Trekking Mount Kenya.
After breakfast, hike via the Naro Moro gate to Met Station (3,040m) for dinner and overnight. 13Km hike, 3 to 4 hrs. With lunch en route.
Day 3: Met Station Mackinder's Camp Trekking Mount Kenya.
After breakfast hike to Mackinder's Camp (4,200m) for dinner and overnight. 13Km, 4 to 5 hrs. Hike with lunch en route.
Day 4: Mackinder's Camp-Point Lenana-Chogoria Banda's Trekking Mount Kenya.
Attempt Point Lenana at 02:30hrs and be at the peak before the sunrise. After the sunrise, descend the mountain to Mintos hut for a full breakfast. After breakfast descend with lunch en route to Chogoria Banda's camp for dinner and overnight.
Day 5: Chogoria Banda's-Nairobi Trekking Mount Kenya.


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ENERGY TRANSITIONS
End of Iowa's wind boom? Renewable rules spark fears
Jeffrey Tomich, E&E News reporter
Published: Wednesday, July 8, 2020
Iowa wind turbines. Photo credit: Iowa Wind Energy Association/Facebook
A proposal to require state approval of renewable energy projects in Iowa is raining concerns among wind developers. Iowa Wind Energy Association/Facebook
Iowa, a national leader in wind energy, is weighing new rules for siting renewable energy projects — regulations that could shake up a system that's enabled billions of dollars of investment in the state over the past two decades.
The Iowa Utilities Board initiated the rulemaking in May after denying a developer's petition to site four large solar projects in the same manner as wind farms — by putting local government in control.
Debate over siting of renewable energy has been brewing in Iowa for the past two years, including a case at the state Supreme Court last year and in the Legislature. Now, with utility-scale solar poised to take off, too, the board said it's looking to create a more streamlined, consistent process for renewables across the state's 99 counties.
The proposed rules would require wind projects to get approval from the state when traditionally they only needed county approval. The rules also raise the specter of eminent domain and create uncertainty for wind projects currently in development.
Groups including the Iowa Farm Bureau Federation, counties, utilities, landowners, and labor and environmental groups have weighed in. So have the big wind companies, which have urged the board to tread carefully when changing policy that's enabled an economic boom.
"This is a major change to wind energy siting policy in Iowa," said Jeff Danielson, central region director for the American Wind Energy Association and a former Iowa state senator. "This would have a significant impact."
Some companies like GE Renewable Energy and EDF Renewables have urged regulators not to mess with success, saying the new rules could increase development time and cost.
Warren Buffett's MidAmerican Energy Co. said in a statement that the rules should be dropped and will have "a significant chilling effect on renewable generation development."
According to AWEA, Iowa has more than 10,000 megawatts of installed wind capacity and 11 wind-related manufacturing plants. The industry employs 9,000 people in the state, directly and indirectly, and generates tens of millions of dollars in local taxes and in payments to landowners.
While the proposed rules are unique to Iowa, tension over local versus state siting of wind and solar projects is a prevalent theme in the renewable energy world.
Ohio has grappled with the issue in recent years (Energywire, Dec. 4, 2019). More recently, New York's Legislature approved a statewide permitting process for large wind and solar projects despite strong pushback from groups in rural upstate who complained the process would "trample" local input (Energywire, April 3).
The changes in New York are meant to alleviate a backlog of project applications.
No such backlog exists in Iowa, where the consideration of how to site renewables seems to be prompted by the emergence of utility-scale solar.
The same story is playing out in other states across the Midwest, and the issue has exposed nuanced differences between siting wind and solar projects — ones that can be thorny issues for policymakers and regulators.
"States are now just trying to grapple with 'How do we treat these [utility-scale solar projects]?'" said Sarah Mills, a professor at the University of Michigan, who studies the impact of renewable energy development in rural areas. "They do have different land use applications.
"Everybody assumes solar would be way less contentious than wind, and that's not the case."
Solar's rise
Since 1997, Iowa wind projects have not been required to get state approval because even sprawling wind farms, which today can cover 80 square miles with turbines a quarter-mile apart, are considered individual sites each with less than 25 MW on a single gathering line, meaning they can be zoned at the county level.
While some consider the system to be making use of a loophole, it's one backed up by case law — most recently a 2019 state Supreme Court decision affirming the Iowa Utilities Board's decision not to regulate a large wind project.
Less clear is how the board will treat big solar projects, the first few of which were proposed in Iowa last year. Those proposals signal that the next 20 years could do for solar expansion what the last 20 years did for wind development in Iowa.
There's currently almost 2,500 MW of solar projects under development in Iowa seeking to connect to the Midcontinent Independent System Operator's interconnection queue. Solar generation is considered a complement to Iowa's wind, which tends to produce more energy at night, and is viewed as a cost-effective way to further wean the state off fossil fuel.
Developer Invenergy LLC proposed four large solar projects last year, each between 150 and 300 MW, and asked that it be allowed to take advantage of the same "gathering line standard" used by the wind industry. But regulators denied the request, noting the issues raised are "significant legal and policy issues that affect the state as a whole."
The board's decision gave rise to the rules it proposed in May.
Chicago-based Invenergy said last month in response to the proposal that utility-scale solar projects shouldn't face a tougher regulatory burden than wind, which is chiefly zoned at the county level, or fossil energy plants, which are sited at the state level.
Each of the four large solar projects approved in 2019 had to get both county zoning approval and obtain a certificate from the state.
"Solar — despite fulfilling the same state public policy wind does, and despite having no emissions and lower noise than traditionally-fueled generation ... was the only kind of generation that had to run a gauntlet of two separate levels of basic permitting," the company argued.
An Invenergy spokeswoman didn't respond to an email request for comment.
The board's initial proposed rule would require renewable energy developers to get a certificate of necessity and public convenience from the state for any project with aggregate capacity greater than 25 MW.
But AWEA and other parties contend the rule leaves unanswered a key question about who has the final say on siting — the state or counties. It's unclear whether "the IUB takes over the process whole cloth or whether they would still defer to some level of county decisions," Danielson said.
The wind industry has also raised concerns about a provision in the rule that would let existing wind projects move forward without a certificate from the board if they have begun construction.
AWEA said the "grandfathering" provision is troublesome because it excludes projects in the final stages of the local permitting process but haven't begun construction, which could lead to delays and increased costs.
Eminent domain worries
Among the projects that would be affected is Apex Clean Energy's Great Pathfinder wind farm, a 225-MW project north of Des Moines, Iowa.
Virginia-based Apex said the Great Pathfinder project won approval from an Iowa county last month. The company is meeting with landowners to get transmission easements and has met with potential lenders, customers and turbine suppliers. The company is worried that new siting rules could be finalized before construction begins, requiring it to "start over" under a new permitting process.
Environmental groups, usually allies of the renewable energy industry, have expressed somewhat different positions.
In general, they don't oppose consolidating approval of renewable energy projects at the Iowa Utilities Board, even if that means eliminating the current gathering line standard used to site wind projects.
"As long as it doesn't end up being a more burdensome process and it's done in a fair way, we don't oppose that," said Kerri Johannsen, energy program director for the Iowa Environmental Council. "We believe the law allows counties to weigh in."
But the council and the Chicago-based Environmental Law and Policy Center on Monday urged the board to withdraw the proposed rules out of concern they could stymie projects currently in development, such as Great Pathfinder.
The Sierra Club, meanwhile, recommended the board move forward with the rules, saying they "strike a balance" between renewable energy opponents and supporters.
The Sierra Club said the public is too often excluded from participating in a meaningful way under the existing county-level siting process.
"County officials too often yield to the siren song of jobs, economic development, and tax revenue, and do not give appropriate consideration to the environment and proper land use policies," the group said.
Not surprisingly, the proposed rules have stoked the passion of dozens of Iowa landowners. Many of their comments center on a provision giving the power of eminent domain to renewable energy developers that obtain a state permit.
Invenergy, which has built several wind farms in Iowa, said concern about the provision overlooks the fact that eminent domain authority is already available to developers that obtain a state permit and that 5,000 turbines have been constructed in the state without a request by a developer to take private property for that purpose.
The company suggested the board establish two tracks for approving renewable energy projects, and those with developers that forgo the right to use eminent domain should be streamlined.
Similarly, Des-Moines based MidAmerican said in its statement that "the story of renewable energy in Iowa has been a success story."
"The last thing the board should want now is a plot twist that leaves the ending in doubt," the company said.
Twitter: @jefftomichEmail: jtomich@eenews.net


Guess how much your favourite tech gadgets cost when they first came out.
We have all seen technology come and go. What is interesting however, is finding out how much those everyday gadgets we now take for granted cost when they was first released. Smartphones, Tablets, Computers, Laptops and now smartwatches! With 76% of people across the UK owning a smartphone and 90% of households across the UK owning at least 1 to 3 computer tablets it shows that technology is really taking over.
FIRST SMARTPHONE – IBM Simon Personal Communicator.
Released: 1992 although the term smartphone wasn't used until 1995.
IBM's Simon was the first phone to combine the features of a mobile phone and a PDA. It featured an LCD touchscreen measuring 4.5 inches by 1.4 inches and you could use it to receive emails, faxes and pages. It even had a notes section, an address book, a calendar, world clock and an appointment scheduler. Sounds very much like the features we take for granted on today's smartphones.
Cost then: £699 (equivalent to £1103 today).
Cost now: You can now pick up an Android smartphone with a 13 megapixel camera for £200.
FIRST LAPTOP – Osborne 1.
The Osborne 1 has been considered as the first fully portable, fully featured computer. Weighing 11kg and without a hardrive, it relied fully on floppy disks (remember those, they were before the USB). It featured two built-in floppy drives, with floppy disk storage compartments, a detachable full-size keyboard with numeric keypad, and a built-in monochrome monitor.
Cost now: You can buy a laptop with an Intel Celeron processor, 4GB RAM and 1TB hard drive for £249.
Before USB sticks were invented it was very difficult to transfer large amounts of data. Floppy disks were one way but with a limited memory space (1.44 megabytes), they made a simple task quite difficult. USB sticks revolutionised this, and now you can buy them with a huge 128GB of memory, that's 1000 times more memory than what you could get when they was first released.
Cost then: A 128MB memory stick in 2000 would cost you £23 (£33 in today's money).
Cost now: You can now buy a 128GB memory stick for £50.
The Grid Pad has been known as the first ever portable computer tablet aimed at consumer use. It featured a fully supported stylus input on a 10-inch monochrome screen and lasted for 3 hours between charges. The person who created this tablet went on to launch Palm, the creator of Palm Pilot and Palm Print, a software which allows computers to interpret and recognise human writing.
Cost then: £1500 (£3,664 in todays money) definitely a pricey purchase.
Cost now: You can buy a 16GB tablet with a 10 hour battery life for £100.
Having to honour the fact that Pulsar released the first ever digital watch in 1972, the Seiko message watch is the first watch which started to combine lots of features all in one, which evidently could be the beginning of smart watches. This watch combined lots of features such as sending and receiving messages, showing sports scores, weather forecasts and stock prices.
Cost now: You can buy Smartwatches which monitor your health, movement, allow you to reply to messages, and make calls as well as access apps and search the internet all for £200.


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The closest I have gotten to what I want is putting them in divs that float:left. The problem is I want the containers to align center not left. How can I achieve this.

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· One of the journeymen and the apprentice were belted off below the neutral bracket on a newly installed pole, using hot sticks to tie off the energized conductor. Another journeymen on the ground was using a hold-down to keep the conductor in place while the wraplock tie was installed.
began to make the first wrap on the conductor. But he began this before the apprentice was fully in place and had secured the wrap with a hot stick.
· The unsecured conductor rolled out of the insulator, fell, and contacted the journeyman's left wrist. Trying to catch his balance, his right arm contacted either the neutral bracket or the pole.
· As a result of the current flowing through his body, the journeyman lost his left arm and suffered severe burns over his back and right arm. He will never work as an electrician again.
1. The primary emphasis was on production not on safety.
2. There had been no communication with the utility or employer.
3. The neutral conductor was in the primary zone instead of being tagged down and out.
4. No clearance from the Utility to work on energized primary, the day of the accident.
5. Workers did not place the oil circuit reclosure into the non-reclose position.
6. The wire was not held in place with hot sticks while making hot tie.
1. Obtain clearance from Utility prior to commencement of hot work.
2. Place circuit reclosures on "non-reclose" prior to commencing work.
3. Leave grounds and neutrals out of the work area. If not possible, cover them.
4. Maintain positive control of energized conductors at all times, with appropriate tools.
5. Plan ahead and discuss all moves with your pole partner before commencing work.
6. Maintain good communication with the utility and the employer.
7. Keep current on pole-top rescue and all safe practices.
· If you work with electricity, no matter how experienced you are, what must you remember?
· What other hazards do you work with? Could you become casual and careless about these?


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import urllib.request, urllib.error, urllib.parse
import http.cookiejar

class User:
    """
    クッキーの管理や、ユーザーエージェントなどのヘッダ全般を管理するクラスです.
    """
    @classmethod
    def anonymouse(cls):
        return User()

    def __init__(self, user_agent="Monazilla 1.00", language="ja", keep_alive=300):
        self.user_agent = user_agent
        self.language = language
        self.keep_alive = keep_alive

        cj = http.cookiejar.CookieJar()
        self.__cookie = cj
        self.__opener = urllib.request.build_opener(urllib.request.HTTPCookieProcessor(cj))

    def getOpener(self):
        return self.__opener
    opener = property(getOpener)

    def getCookie(self):
        return self.__cookie
    cookie = property(getCookie)

    def getRequest(self, url, gzip=False, bytes=0,
                                 if_modified_since=None, if_none_match=None):
        headers = {
            "User-Agent": self.user_agent,
            "Accept-Language": self.language,
            "Keep-Alive": str(self.keep_alive),
            "Connection": "close",
        }
        if gzip:
            headers["Accept-Encoding"] = "gzip"
        if bytes > 0:
            headers["If-Modified-Since"] = if_modified_since
            headers["If-None-Match"] = if_none_match
            headers["Range"] = "bytes= %i-" % bytes
        req = urllib.request.Request(url, None, headers)
        return req

    def urlopen(self, url, gzip=False, bytes=0,
                if_modified_since=None, if_none_match=None):
        req = self.getRequest(url, gzip, bytes, if_modified_since, if_none_match)
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            "Accept": "*/*",
            "Accept-Language": self.language,
            "Keep-Alive": str(self.keep_alive),
            "Referer": referer,
            "Connection": "close",
        }
        req = urllib.request.Request(url, None, headers)
        self.__cookie.add_cookie_header(req)
        return self.opener.open(req, param)

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Residents urged to give views as bus services put 'at risk'
Posted on November 29, 2012 by webmaster
A number of bus services run with financial support from Bath and North East Somerset Council could be at risk of being cut, residents in the area have been warned.
The Liberal Democrat-run authority is asking residents, bus users and Parish Councils for their views on proposals which could see some of the Council's bus subsidies ended or reduced.
As part of the consultation, which runs until the 12th December, a number of bus services which the Council says are poorly used or not good value for money have been put on an 'at risk' notice.
The authority's opposition Conservative councillors have raised concerns that not enough residents have been made aware of the potential changes and are urging people in Bath and North East Somerset to send in their views.
"Many people rely upon local bus services to go about their daily lives, particularly elder residents and the less able. Ending or reducing any bus service could have a major impact on these bus users, particular if there are no decent alternatives, and so any decision should not be taken lightly.
"As a principle, we believe the Council has a responsibility to ensure there are bus services available to the isolated parts of the area or to places which are poorly served by commercial operators.
"Unfortunately, the Council has not stated what level of saving it is looking to achieve, so it's hard to know how many of these services on the 'at risk' list could ultimately be affected. If the Council does need to make savings from its bus contracts then it should be looking at all bus services from the ground up to see if routes can be better designed to ensure provision is maintained across the authority."
Bus routes potentially affected by the consultation include:
The 30-minute frequency on the 6 & 7 route between Bath city centre, Fairfield Park and Larkhall;
The 30-minute frequency on the number 1 service between Coombe Down and Bath city centre;
Late evening services on the 14A;
The 665 service in Saltford and Keynsham;
The 507 service from Keynsnsham to Southmead;
The 533 service from Keynsham to Mangotsfield;
Sunday and evening service on the 179 route from Bath to Midsomer Norton via Timsbury;
The Tuesday 668 & 636 service;
The 700, 716 and 734 service in Bath;
The daily service on the 67 bus between Bristol and the Chew Valley;
The evening service on the 672 bus between Bristol and the Chew Valley;
Sunday and evening services on the 265 service from Bath to Warminster;
Evening services on the 267 bus from Bath to Frome;
Late evening services on the 338 service from Bath to Keynsham.
The weekly 791 & 793 service between Bath and Weston-super-Mare via Midsomer Norton.
Residents can take part in the consultation by visiting http://www.bathnes.gov.uk/supportedbusconsultation and emailing transportation@bathnes.gov.uk .


Two coffeehouse chains have rolled out new retail items this week, with Starbucks rehabilitating its Teavana brand in packaged form and Peet's Coffee expanding its national presence with a new line of shelf-stable ready-to-drink beverages.
Seattle-based Starbucks has completed the closure of its more than 350 Teavana units — a tea brand it bought nearly six years ago — and is introducing packaged tea under that brand in retail stores. The company did not name which supermarket chains will sell the tea. Six flavors can be found on some grocery shelves starting this month, with the rollout complete by 2018, Starbucks said Tuesday.
Peet's Coffee, meanwhile, has launched a line of shelf-stable, ready-to-drink iced espresso beverages for national distribution, the Emeryville, Calif.-based coffeehouse chain said Monday.
Previously, the chain, which operates around 400 coffeehouses, mostly distributed its ready-to-drink cold beverages on the West Coast, as those were not shelf-stable and had to remain cold. The new Peet's True Iced Espresso line doesn't have those limitations and is available at Kroger, Albertson's and Safeway, among other supermarkets nationwide, as well as through the company's website, peets.com, the company said in a release.
Starbucks said it's entering the $1.2 billion U.S. packaged tea category as it sees success of Teavana sales in company stores. The Teavana line has grown 14 percent since the start of its current fiscal year.
"The launch of Teavana packaged tea in grocery is just the beginning of the journey to bring consumers some of their Teavana favorites in a new, accessible format where they purchase their groceries," John Culver, retail channel development executive, said in a statement.
Culver said Starbucks is committed to increasing the company's tea business to $3 billion over the next five years through various retail channels.
Starbucks paid $620 million in cash for Teavana in December 2012. Last summer, the company announced plans to close all retail outlets, many of which were inside malls.
The suggested retail price is $2.99.
The launch comes two months after Peet's, a subsidiary of JAB Holding Co., introduced canned Baridi Black Nitro Cold Brew, which is canned with a nitrogen widget that releases when the can is opened and gives the coffee a creamier consistency.
The national distribution is a continuation of Peet's moves to expand beyond its West Coast stronghold. It's currently building a roasting plant in Suffolk, Va., to help manage growing demand east of the Mississippi. The new plant, slated to open by the end of the year, is slightly larger than Peet's existing roastery in Alameda, Calif.